Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
ALAN HIRSCHIf we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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